Court Overturns Video Game Violence Case

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Law prohibiting minors from playing mature arcade games fails to hold up in court.

By IGN Staff

Back in July, the City-County Council of Indianapolis passes an ordinance that required all arcade games with either graphic violent or strong sexual content to display warning labels and be located at least ten feet from all "non-offending" game machines. The mature arcade games were further to be screened behind curtains or walls to prevent minors from seeing them. The law, which was to take effect September 1, has been overturned temporarily by the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on the grounds that it imposed unconstitutional content-based free speech restrictions.

We'll keep following this story to find out if the reversal sticks or not.